Denmark's Draft Budget
Includes Larger Surplus

COPENHAGEN -- Denmark's government unveiled a 1998 draft budget with a projected surplus that would be double the size of the surplus estimated for 1997.

The central-government budget for next year is expected to come in at seven billion kroner ($1.01 billion), or 0.6% of gross domestic product, up from 3.5 billion kroner, or the equivalent of 0.3% of GDP estimated for this year. The central-government budget includes the central...